Oldest Facebook User and Other Strange Facebook Facts [DYK]

Contrary to what you may think, your grandma isn’t the oldest person on Facebook. It is 103 years old Lillian Lowe. A former hotelier and businesswoman from Pembrokshire (UK) who joined Facebook after her husband passed away this July. Lillian uses Facebook, twice a week to get updates from her family and friends. She has received thousands of friend requests from around the world which she thinks is pretty kind of people but says she does not have time to reply to them all.

Following picture, courtesy of BBC, shows Lillian using Facebook from her grandson’s iPad:

2. Facebook Related Disorders:

As of yet, following terms have been coined regarding various Facebook related issues. They have not necessarily been endorsed by a medical institution or organization but come up too often on various publications:

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While Facebook explains how â€œpokingâ€ works on its help center, thereâ€™s no explanation to be found for the origin of the phrase. The most common definition is a friendly â€œnudge,â€ but the more flirtatious connotations cannot be ignored.

David Kirkpatrick reveals in The Facebook Effect that Zuckerberg once responded to a question about what a poke meant on the social networking site with: â€œWe thought it would be fun to make a feature that has no specific purposeâ€¦ So mess around with it, because youâ€™re not getting an explanation from us.â€